Word: flawlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prospector, who seemed to know a thing or two himself. (Thus in 1853 the Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star of the South for good prices.) In Amsterdam last week miserable striking diamond cutters went back to work for a reduced wage of 25 florins ($10) per week...
...Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...Harvard, 5½ for Dartmouth, 5 for Yale. ¶Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior: respectively the national ice skating championship and the women's championship, each for the fifth successive year, at Manhattan's Ice Club. Following a flawless execution of the "school figures" (loop-change-loop, counter, bracket-change-bracket) Miss Vinson clinched her victory with a brilliant display of free-skating...
...Almost flawless broadcasting and prepared and delivered speeches characterized the first transoceanic debate as argued by Harvard and Oxford teams on Saturday...
...Harvard nine played almost a flawless game. The only error was made in the fifth frame when MacHale was unable to pick up a grounder hit by White. Mays made several difficult stops at second base and Wood, at short, played a fast and efficient game...